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open tracery worK. At the third pair of pillars was the rood screen, 

 with the nave altar in front, and in the aisles on either side was a chapel. 

 In the triforium above, on the south side is a curious corbelled-out stone 

 box of fourteenth century date, that probably contained a pair of organs 

 for the nave services. Over the south aisle for six bays from the west 

 was a long room with flat roof added in the fifteenth century, for the 

 library, which occupies the same position at Worcester and Norwich. 

 The cloister was rebuilt and vaulted in stone in the fifteenth century, and 

 the south-east bay is traceable against the nave wall. The ' Abbey 

 House,' a picturesque structure of the beginning of the seventeenth 

 century, supposed to have been built by one of the Stump family, retains 

 as a cellar on the north side, part of a late thirteenth century sub-vault, 

 beneath what was evidently the monks' dorter. The ' Bell Hotel,' at 

 the west end of the Church, has ancient walls, and was probably one of 

 the guest houses. In the north wall is a three-light thirteenth century 

 window." 



" Literary Associations," by M. Jourdain, " Clarendon the Historian," 

 by the Rev. D. Maeleane, with a portrait, and " Salisbury," by A. W. K. 

 Straton, are all readable articles. The descent of Clarendon Park, from 

 which Lord Clarendon took his title, is given, and we are reminded that 

 Hyde Park and the Clarendon Buildings and Press, at Oxford, are all 

 named from him. 



Incidentally the derivation of " Petersfinger," near Salisbury, is given 

 as St. Peter ad Vincula. 



" Some Old Houses," by T. Garner, has excellent illustrations of Great 

 Chalfield, now being restored for Mr. E. Fuller by Mr. Brakspear ; the 

 Porch at South Wraxall Manor ; and a charming house at Yatton Keynell. 

 These are described, with Sheldons, the Church House, Salisbury, and 

 Norrington, and a useful list of Old Houses in "Wiltshire is added. It 

 is, however, incorrect to include Clyffe Pypard Manor House as retaining 

 17th century work. 



" Bradford-on-Avon," by Alice Dryden, is— as is fitting — quite one of 

 the best and most informing articles in the book, indeed there is more 

 original information here than is to be found in any other article. She 

 notes that the name was changed by the Post Office from Bradford to 

 Bradford-on-Avon, at the suggestion of Canon Jones in 1858. The Saxon 

 Church is very carefully described, with a good view of the north side. 

 A letter from E. A. Freeman to The Times, Sept. 9th, 1886, as to repairs, 

 is quoted. " The walls were made of a casing of stone inside and out, 

 with cement poured in between. In the course of ages the cement had 

 vanished, and there was nothing to tie the inner and outer faces of the 

 wall together. Mr. Charles Adye, a very skilful and zealous architect 

 in Bradford itself, has made the whole safe by gradually and warily 

 pouring in new cement." It is also put on record that " a valuable set 

 of drawings and notes of the Church, made by the late Mr. J. T. Irvine 

 during the years of the restoration, are among his papers, now the 

 property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland." 



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